We don't need backup

Everything stays on the local pc: server, client, copy of db, code, local version of source control. Only when a project has been completed is code ever merged up onto the main server and co-mingled with the source control system.

When I inquired as to how/when stuff got backed up to some server (in case of an interim failure), I was told that "we don't need to back anything up to the server because hard disks don't fail". I asked about checkpoint version control saves as well as updating code from the repository in case of a long-duration project: "we know what we're doing, and don't need to do stuff like that".